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incipient
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  • YOU TAKE HIS HIGH STANDARDS FOR STORIES THAT ARE 'EXCEPTIONAL' AND YOU PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH HIS BELIEF THAT 'NOTHING BEARS OUT IN PRACTICE WHAT IT PROMISES INCIPIENTLY,' AND THERE'S YOUR THESIS!†  (source)
  • But the incipient panic he saw in Roger's eyes now was bad, too.†  (source)
  • He had an incipient second chin that would have been emphasized had he looked down or nodded.†  (source)
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  • I will have to trust that there is enough incipient activity in and from the tesla trees even during the quiet periods.†  (source)
  • For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.†  (source)
  • He made Kaethe Gregorovius feel charming, meanwhile becoming increasingly restless at the all-pervading cauliflower—simultaneously hating himself too for this incipience of he knew not what superficiality.†  (source)
    incipience = a beginning of existence
  • So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts.†  (source)
  • Whenever I think of Owen Meany's medal for heroism, I'm reminded of Thomas Hardy's diary entry in 1882—Owen showed it to me, that little bit about "living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently."†  (source)
  • The incipient panic that had started a few hours earlier had driven them to the brittle edge of riot.†  (source)
  • EVEN EARLY—WHEN HE WAS TRAVELING IN FRANCE, IN 1882—HE WROTE: 'SINCE I DISCOVERED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THAT I WAS LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE NOTHING BEARS OUT IN PRACTICE WHAT IT PROMISES INCIPIENTLY, I HAVE TROUBLED MYSELF VERY LITTLE ABOUT THEORIES.†  (source)
  • When he removed his boots he discovered incipient frostbite on several toes.†  (source)
  • An incipient fuzz appeared on his upper lip.†  (source)
  • I've put in the incipient wrinkles, the little chicken feet at the corners of the lids.†  (source)
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